But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a revival of interest in atmospheric ghost stories within cinema.
Guillermo Del Toro reflects on the comeback of gothic ghost stories in film, highlighting the success of movies like 'The Others', 'Devil's Backbone', and 'The Sixth Sense'. He implies that this resurgence emphasizes a return to storytelling that relies on atmospheric tension and richly developed narratives, characteristic of traditional ghost stories that evoke deeper emotional responses.
In practice
During a film festival, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of atmosphere in storytelling.
I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.
As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.
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The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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